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Fox takes music-centered drama for early launch
Show sees usual fine-tuning as it heads east
Brown paper holds 'Panic' together
The preem of a new tuner version of "A Christmas Story," a new production of "Grand Hotel" directed by Moises Kaufman and a David Cromer-helmed play are among the offerings on the 2009-10 sl…
Conor McPherson's Christmas Eve-set contemporary folk fable -- well received in both London and Gotham -- falls short of optimum hilarity, poignancy or chills in Randall Arney's Geffen produ…
The material is fascinating, but for all her winning perkiness, its writer is a little stiff.
Cirque's Gotham roost on Randall's Island may keep "Kooza" from the kind of B.O. a Manhattan venue would provide, but auds who make the trek won't be disappointed.
Over seven hours of hilarious peaks and contemplative valleys, his 1973 trilogy "The Norman Conquests" delivers more laughs than ought to be legal while steadily expanding our perspective on…
Theater regulars to performs in world premiere
What seemingly begins as a banal, gossipy kitchen-sink comedy turns into a keenly constructed and beautifully acted romantic drama.
Set in a vast underground warehouse that recalls the final shot from "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the play doesn't quite accomplish everything it tries for, but its ambition and hyper-competen…
2009-10 season succeeds with familiarity
Tony nominated for work in 'Nine, the Musical'
Box office nabs $21.3 million
Bacharach, David musical sets monthlong run
The entertaining new L.A. premiere production at the Colony Theater capitalizes on the tuner's virtues with a strong cast and smart direction.
Director Gordon Greenberg has invested the musical history lesson with tremendous verve.
The George Street Playhouse premiere follows Laurents' directorial outings on the Broadway revivals of his scripted tuners "Gypsy" and "West Side Story," but this production looks to generat…
The cast, design and direction of "The Gingerbread House" are all top-flight. Now, if only someone would do something about the play.
Pricetag estimated at as much as $200 million
Politics and power, in any age, are a dirty business. If the first Broadway transfer from the Donmar Warehouse, Frost/Nixon, was a keen reminder of that point, the London company's second transatlantic traveler, Mary Stuart, imparts the lesson even more trenchantly. The setting is late 16th-century England, and the writing dates back to 1800, but the spin, chicanery and ruthless self-preservation of a government that both abides by and manipulates public perception are timeless. Phyllida Lloyd's steely revival of the Friedrich Schiller play simmers and scalds as it should, but it's the deft balance of the parallel tragedies of two imprisoned queens that makes the production so enthralling.
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